A post is being shared on social media, which contains a news clip that reports the death of a student who was slapped by his teacher forty times. The post description reads, ‘Teacher ne bache ko Maar Dala’, which translates to ‘a teacher killed a student.’ Let’s fact-check this claim through this article.
Claim: News report on the death of a student who lost his life after a teacher slapped him forty times.
Fact: The video in the post was created using three different clips of incidents in which teachers slapped or beat their students. In the first incident in Lucknow, a teacher slapped a child named Sunny forty times over, for not saying ‘yes, ma’am. The teacher was suspended for her actions. Sunny did not lose his life in this incident. The second video is about a child named Shivam who lost his life after his tuition teacher Kehav Gautham beat him badly. This happened in Mathura, Uttar Pradesh. The third news report is of the alleged murder of a student by her coaching teacher in Kota, Rajasthan. Hence the claim made in the post is MISLEADING.
Upon keenly observing the video, we noticed that the first video is a news report by ABP news, the second one is about a boy named Shivam from Uttar Pradesh, and the third report is by News 18 about the death of a student. Using these hints, we performed a keyword search on the internet and found relevant news reports of the three incidents.
Video Clip 1:
This clip is from a news report by ABP news about a teacher who slapped a class three student forty times in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh. Reportedly, she did this because he did not respond to her during a roll call. The Quint’s news clip and a news report on this incident from 2017 can be viewed here and here.
Video Clip 2:
The clip reports the death of a child named Shivam from Mathura, Uttar Pradesh, in September 2021. Reportedly, Shivam was beaten badly by his tuition teacher Kesav Gautham over not bringing the tuition fees. We did not find the original clip featured in the viral post, but several other news reports about this incident can be viewed here, here and here.
Video Clip 3:
This clip is from a news report by News18 Rajashtan on the death of a Kota student. Reportedly, a private tuition teacher allegedly strangulated a 15-year-old student. He was arrested a few days after being on the run for a while. News reports related to this incident can be read here and here.
To sum up, a video created using old news reports of three different incidents is shared as a recent news story of a child beaten to death by his teacher.
